Comments by "Harry Mills" (@harrymills2770) on "The Rubin Report" channel.

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  7. What Hamas - a creation of Israel injected into Palestine - did was terrible. But if what they did was terror, what do you call what Israel has done to Gaza? In the American West, you had a similar ongoing conflict between ethnic groups. It, too, was very lopsided in favor of one side. What's downplayed/ignored is that the massacres and atrocities on both sides were committed by a very small number of renegades by enraged people (on both sides) lashing out in fear or retribution or both. Your focus on the latest act of terror doesn't blind me to the fact that if you want to count dead children, Israel has killed more children in the last few weeks than Russia has in a full-scale conflict in Ukraine in almost 2 years. Let's not gloss over the open-air prison the Israelis are operating or forget there is such unbridled antipathy for Israel, Europe, and the USA in the Middle East. The USA picked up right where the British left off re-drawing the map of the Middle East by force. But even the British didn't carve out an entire nation for the Jews and force hundreds of thousands, if not millions, out of their homes and off their land. The ongoing situation in Gaza is intolerable. The treatment of Palestinians is inexcusable. I get that Israel is in a non-stop battle for survival, surrounded by hostile nations. But you have to ask yourself "Why is that?" Maybe it's because the USA under the UK's guidance, made a whole country out of thin air, called it "Israel," and evicted and oppressed the locals. Under that logic, we should evict all European and African-descended Americans from America! How do you think they would react if someone came along and said "For the greater good, you must give up your home and your homeland," and used force to bring it about? You're worried about 10 hostages, but don't mention 1200 Palestinian children killed. I guess it's OK to drop bombs on people, but if their feeble-best response is to chop off a few heads and seize 10 hostages, then that's terrorism? It's terrorism if you don't have advanced military hardware and bombers? You need to see this as - as Dave Chapelle called it - asymmetric warfare. There's a war being waged on these people and it's been ongoing for a very long time. I'm not justifying hostage taking, but I see it as the consequence of way worse that's been going for a very long time. This is just ONE atrocity you can point to, and there's no denying it's an atrocity, but don't let your confirmation bias blind you to the big picture or the MANY atrocities committed by the side you happen to support.
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  11. Adult vs Agitator and Activist. An adult is too busy working to make their corner of the world a better place to waste time on activism or agitation. An adult does the math, helps one or two people, and contributes to charities, in the sure knowledge that if everyone did the same, nobody'd be wasting time agitating or protesting or petitioning government, because they'd be too busy making tomorrow a better day, right where they're at. Don't protest for Med-4-All. Hold a barn dance and a raffle to pay for a new x-ray machine or a couple more beds at the local hospital. People SENSE that the local medical care is a community - i.e., communal - thing. But if you can't make it work at the local level, there's no way the feds, who are operating at about 30 cents on the dollar efficiency, aren't going to fix it for everybody. You want to be active? Start fund-raisers for your local/neighborhood/community clinic, so medical care for everybody in your vicinity is a little better than it otherwise would be. Take pride in that as a community. There's big status in being the rich guy who made a big contribution to the hospital. Local hospitals should have huge endowments, if people REALLY cared about their health care. It's just easier to virtue signal and complain when you don't get everything you want from somebody else. What's the health care industry getting from YOU, without being forced to it? Before Johnson's Great Society, places like Harlem were pretty classy, and on the way up. And they were doing it the RIGHT way. Harlem had some very good schools in the 1950s and '60s. Harlem was like a charter school, by today's standards, and one of the better school districts in New York City. Before and immediately after the REAL fight was won, for equal treatment under the law. "Leave us be, and we'll do just fine." Dems lost that civil rights battle and immediately built a federal plantation. Normal people of ALL colors are getting tired of the new racists calling themselves anti-racists. WORKERS of all colors are increasingly far-removed from what you college kids believe, and no wonder, when you look at the one-party capture of the academy. Boasting about one's degrees and IQs is like announcing to the world you probably need help tying your shoes. I'm sorry, but that means cleaning your room, fixing good food, working on projects, including yourself. Like that stone wall for the raised beds.
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  29. The ancients came up with all kinds of mythological explanations for things. "You have a dragon in your belly!" And the treatment for "dragon in the belly" was some herb, and that herb - it was said - would calm the angry dragon. Of course it wasn't a dragon in the belly. But the herb cured the stomach ailment, and the dragon myth became "science." I think Peterson's trying to get at how we humans have (psychological) archetypes that seem to be hard-wired into our brains from birth. Universality of red = blood, light = wisdom, for instance (pulling these outta my ass, here). Actual scholars can tell you the common threads found between all religions. Religions grapple with unanswerable (by science) questions about life, death, and meaning. None of them are perfect. All of them address a deep need in the human psyche for meaning. True or false, it doesn't matter, IF THEY WORK. And even if they. DON'T work, people will eagerly embrace belief systems (faiths) that resonate with them. Now put all this into a hopper and turn the time crank millions of years, from pre-human, to the first self-aware human, on to today. We in the West think in terms of Christianity, which derives from Judaism, which derives at least party from the Egyptians, which derives from archetypes apparently hard-wired in humans since pre-historic times. What we're coming to find out is that it's irrational to hold religious convictions. It's also irrational NOT to hold religious convictions! And it turns out that the ABSENCE of any over-arching meaning for life is a sure path to extinction. That's why atheism is irrational. Without the mystical, society's not stable enough for scientific advancement. Scientific advancement exposes all the holes in religious doctrine. Rejecting religion leads to extinction, because religion fills a psychological need in self-aware, MORTAL beings. Without the religion, humanity stagnates. WITH religion (or its political-ideology substitutes), we devolve into hedonism, nihilism, and totalitarianism, replacing God and Morality with Government and Law. I don't think Peterson is offering any kind of final answers to these phenomena. He's just pointing them out, and he has some PRACTICAL ways of coping that seem to help people live better lives. Life is suffering. Life is uncertain. Life is TEMPORARY. How do we resolve these facts of life in such a way as to keep life on the up-tick, without descending into chaos? Without harming others or imposing our will on others by force? That's kind of the role of religion. Finding things that WORK over long time periods, spanning many generations of finite-lived human beings? My PERSONAL solution is to be scientific, with an overlay of "God is watching" and "Jesus loves me" from my early upbringing. It's superstitious. It's silly. But it helps ME interpret the world around me using reason to judge what IS and LOVE to set the goalposts. Over time, I try to work towards what SHOULD be, by understanding what IS.
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  49. Actually, we haven't become more radicalized. What's happening is the people who feel the strongest are hijacking all the platforms, giving us a false dichotomy between crazy left and crazy right. A "normal" person needs to pick and choose, and have the courage to call out lefties and righties when they go too far. Sometimes Jimmy Dore gets it right. Sometimes Alex Jones gets it right. But no "normie" I know agrees with anybody on everything. For instance, Tucker Carlson gets a lot of stuff right, but he doesn't score any points with me when he cites divine revelation (his religious faith) as the source of his belief in something. I can respect that belief, but it's not moving the needle for me in the "That's RIGHT! It's in the BIBLE so it MUST be true," because I know a little something about the nature and motivations of the people who wrote the thing. Bronze-Age wise men were definitely wise, and definitely limited in their understanding. For instance, making homosexuality a taboo is a fairly good survival strategy for a Bronze-Age tribe with no notion of disease transmission or safe sex. Men are dogs, and when men have the hots for other men, runaway promiscuity can take place. But in a modern society, making it a taboo actually leads to less responsible behavior. This is another reason I like the idea of the same recognition of marriage between same-sex couples as any other couple. Encourage long-term, monogamous relationships, rather than encourage repression of your desires for long periods, with short periods of zipless sex in restrooms or orgies, which are an epidemic just waiting to happen.
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  50. I haven't read as extensively as JBP, but his sense is my sense, when it comes to a better, greener future for all. You want people to care about the environment, then RAISE their level of prosperity. A person living day-to-day is not at all concerned about the environment. They're worried about food, clothing and shelter TODAY. What's the best way to get there? Reduce the size and scope of national governments around the world. Guarantee the rights of person and property to ALL. What's the best, most humane way to curb population growth? Raise the prosperity level of the people. Middle-class and above tend to have smaller families. For the poor, especially in places like India and China, there's enormous pressure to have more kids, because those kids are free labor and eventual pension plan. To a white-collar worker, children are an EXPENSE, and a HINDRANCE to their early retirement! They're a SACRIFICE made out of love, and not a way to make YOUR life easier. China, a totalitarian state, instituted a 1-child policy, to achieve population stabilization by FORCE. That didn't work out so well, and millions of female children were aborted - some AFTER being born, because if you can only have one child, there's more to be gained from a male child. These climate alarmists want to do the exact opposite of what makes sense and are totally oblivious to the environmental harm done by their idiotic plans, every single one of which is destructive to the aspirations of the little guy or gal wanting to improve their situation. As soon as someone improves their situation, their higher values kick in and they seek to make their little corner of the world greener and more in harmony with Nature. It took me 'til I was 50 to afford my own home. What have I done to this property? Planted trees, installed solar, and insulated the dickens out of the place. My long-postponed prosperity also gave me the flexibility to purchase my home within walking distance (4 blocks) of where I work. That's what these megalomaniacs in supposed power can't wrap their heads around. The world doesn't get better by the few things they can do by force. The world gets better by the individual decisions made by millions (billions) in their own best interests and in service of their higher values. But they need freedom and prosperity to get there, not feudal lords deciding arbitrarily that 'x,' 'y' and 'z' must be implemented by force, while 'a' through 'w' are prevented by their interventions. There's no way a handful of regulators and lawyers can keep up with the ingenuity and new, better ideas being sought by billions of people right where they are and sharing their successes and failures with the rest of the world, freely, with, for instance YouTube videos on "My Passive-Solar Greenhouse." The regulations are written by big corporations to fit what big corporations are good at. Who's first in line for government subsidies? Billionaires like Elon Musk. If you think all the wonderful things he does and says aren't buttressed and motivated by government intervention, then you're not paying attention.
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